The Hand of Rod incident, as it has quickly become known, highlights a massive inconsistency in the application of the handball rule in football that has persisted for years and has always left me confused. The appropriate section of Law 12 reads “Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with the hand…
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For once, my prediction came true and Albion and Villa earned a point apiece in the big game at the Hawthorns on Friday evening, a result that keeps the Baggies in third place ahead of the remainder of the weekend’s fixtures.
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Back in June, there was one fixture that all Baggies fans will have searched for first, and the date they all ringed in the calendar was Saturday 8th December.
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However disappointing and frustrating the result against Brentford was, I don’t believe we should be reading too much into it given the way that Big Dave’s team dominated most of the match.
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After the Leeds and Ipswich games were televised live, and the Swansea game available on the red button, armchair Baggies fans get to watch their fourth successive game as Brentford visit the Hawthorns for the Monday evening game on Sky.
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Albion produced a hard-fought victory at the Liberty Stadium to make it back to back away wins for the first time since they won at Old Trafford and St James’s Park in April, and the joint longest run of successive league victories for the first time since Steve Clarke’s team won four in a row in November 2012.
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